Disclosure Ref: 13

Number of approved Confiscation orders over £1 million since 2017

Freedom of Information Act 2000 Request

Request

Please provide me with the following information:

01. The number of certificates of inadequacy agreed by the CPS and approved by the High Court and/or Crown or magistrates’ court during 1 Jan 2017 and 30 June 2018 in respect of offenders who were subject to a confiscation order set originally at £1 million or above.
02. The names and current age of the relevant offenders in each case.
03. The date and court of their conviction.
04. The relevant principal offence.
05. The court at which the confiscation order was imposed and the date.
06. The sum specified in the original confiscation order.
07. The time to pay deadline.
08. The amount received in payment so far.
09. The interest charged.
10. The size of the confiscation order at the time of the certificate of inadequacy (CoI) being granted.
11. The sum deemed repayable following the grant of the certificate of inadequacy.
12. The outstanding debt still owed by the offender.

Response

In response to your request, please find attached a table showing the information you have requested; the data is accurate as at 16 July 2018. Please bear in mind the caveats documented on the attached when reviewing this data set.

It should also be noted CPS Proceeds of Crime or CPS Areas do not record in a centrally reportable way whether a COI/S23 has been applied for and/or whether it is with consent. Therefore this has involved individual manual checks of case records and documentation to establish variation consent.